[biblitfonts] SBL Glyph Set 0.87

Dear All,

Attached is the latest spreadsheet for the overall SBL BibLit glyph set, now colour coded to help me keep track of the development phases. Although most of the Latin alphabetic glyphs are designated as 3rd phase, excepting those used for Greek uppercase composites, I will probably design most of them during the phase 2, Greek development to ensure harmony between the two scripts.

In this version of the spreadsheet, I have added the new Greek characters and reordered a few of the archaic and extra Greek letters. I would much appreciate it Gerry and David could take a look over the Greek section and let me know if they think anything should be added. I know Gerry will immediately note the absence of Greek smallcaps: these were not included in the initial bried to keep the cost manageable (the Latin smallcaps are being donated by Tiro), but I'm still considering adding them. Rick mentioned today that at least one NT edition uses all caps when directly quoting the Septuagint; having a set of Greek smallcaps available would improve the look of such things. The glyph set does already include, however, a set of Greek superior lowercase letters, which are used in textual apparatus in BHS and elsewhere.

I have currently ordered the archaic and variant forms of Greek letters after the Greek diacritic letters, but am not happy about the order:

...
Digamma
Koppa
Koppanumeric
San
Sampi
Sigmalunate
Stigma
Sho
...
digamma
koppa
koppanumeric
san
sampi
sigmalunate
stigma
yot
sho
beta1
epsilonlunate
epsilonlunatereversed
theta1
kappa1
pi1
rho1
phi1
kai
...

Perhaps Gerry or David can suggest a better order for digamma, koppa, etc. Ideally, I would like to list these letters in the order in which they would appear if taking their original place in the alphabet, if this is certain or agreed upon. I may yet decide to insert the variant forms of the normal Greek letters -- beta1, epsilonlunate, etc. -- after their base forms, as I did for the Hebrew wide forms.

Regards, John

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